The true spirit of the season with card nay nal timothy dolan. And a look back the at how we shared holidays with you. And music from the gramming Award Winning group train and a surprise hoda couldnt wait to give to her up before her fans. Lets get to a chur with nbcs Kristen Welker. Kiss ten, good morning to you. Good morning to you. Merry christmas, everyone. Tens of thousands of faithful gather today for Christmas Day celebrations at vatican as pope francis delivers his traditional message. Last night the pontiff celebrated Midnight Mass at st. Peters basilica and urged the worlds 1. 2 billion roman catholics not to be in his words intoxicated by possessions and also sounded a cry to right injustice. Today, american troops posted overseas are also taking time to Mark Christmas and remembering family members celebrating without them back at home. Reporter it was a somber Christmas Day in afghanistan where they honored six Fallen Soldiers killed in a motorcycle bomb attack called ear
Of a sudden thats how you know things have gone haywire in the office. My, you have been nominated by your peers, you are the most stressedout person. Theres a battle going on right now between the Princeton Battlefield Society, princeton residents, and a and a Nonprofit Group that is trying to develop on this historic endangered land. It is said the ghost of George Washington is actually somewhere around here. I could pretty much use them right now to battle some of these developers. George . Thats right, the the greatest general of all time. General George Washington joined me in a brandnew battle. The x mansion of the institute for events study. The Princeton Battlefield Society honors the historic land with grand written management of the war has been fighting to keep the land relevance. We started our check tours, during our journey tell me were stories and the significance of on. Where on the high ground. Over there, general mercer was knocked off his horse, he died nine days lat
What was it a mysterious light streaks across the sky in california . How this ignited a firestorm on social media. And the holiday crunch christmas just hours away. Are you weather from the weather to travel to shopping for the lastminute gifts . Weve got you covered today, wednesday, december 23rd, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Im matt lauer alongside hoda kotb who is filling in while savannah is on vacation. Hey. Look at this. Weve got a countdown clock were putting up to show how far we are from christmas, one hour, 17 hours and 59 minute. A couple days you lied to us all about being done with your christmas shopping. How did you plead this morning. I panicked more, are we done, is the show done, are we finished . Nieces and what not. May get there a little late but its all right. Help you out with helpful information a l
And the holiday crunch. From the weather to travel to shopping for the lastminute gifts . Weve got you covered today, wednesday, december 23rd, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Im matt lauer alongside hoda kotb who is filling in while savannah is on vacation. Hey. Look at this. Weve got a countdown clock were putting up to show how far we are from christmas. A day one hour, 17 hours and 59 minute. A couple days you lied to us all about being done with your christmas shopping. How did you plead this morning. I didnt lie. I panicked more are we done, is the show done, are we finished . A few Little Things to get, nieces and whatnot. May get there a little late but its all right. Lets get to our top story though. Without naming names, Hillary Clinton subtly fires back at donald trump for his most recent controversial comments about
Postchristmas crush, the mad dash to the malls. Today. Those less than perfect presents. Hoverboard horrors. The family that saw their hottest holiday gift. It started smelling and smoking and then it caught fire. And it was like a fireworks show. This caught fire while one was charging. How to stay safe if you found one under your tree. And good morning, america. Dan and paula are off. Im tom llamas with cecilia vega. Someone let us come in this morning. Rachel, good to see you. You too. Hope you had a happy holiday. Cant leave ron out. We want to start with california right now. Take a look, the hills blazing, all along this the thick smoke. The flames whipped up by strong winds, as well and that fire right now is still growing. To evacuate. Firefighters cutting short their christmas to fight these flames overnight and abcs Kayna Whitworth is right there in Ventura County with more. Kayna, good morning to you. Reporter cecilia, so we have a very fast winddriven fire that has literall